Boat holding-down and detaching device.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906 B. P. MOHORNEY & B. J. KELLEY.

BOAT HOLDING DOWN AND DBTAOHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 0 GT.28. 1905 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE. I

BOAT HOLDl'NG -DOWN AND DETACHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

IratentedAprn 24, 1906.

Application filed October 28,1905. Serial No. 284,896.

To all xv /7,0112 it may concern:

Be it known that we, BENJMANE F. Mo.- HonNEY' and EDWARD J. KELLEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Pine Beach, Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Boat Holding Down" and Detaching Devices, of which the following is a specification.-

This invention relates to boat holdingdown and detaching devices for holding boats in an upright position; and the object thereof is to provide animproved device of this clas-s'designed for use on the deck of a vesselor in a boat-house and by meansof which a boat such as a' row-boat, a life-boat, or other boat ofthis classmay beheld in an up right position, and, furthermore, when used inconnection" with a vessel is adapted to prevent the boat from being washed overboard by high seas orthrown overboard owing to the lurching of the-vessel.

The invention further aims to provide a boat holding-down and detaching device for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and which is soconstructed and arranged that when desired the device can be readily operated so as to release the boat to enable the latter to be used when occasion requires.

The invention further aims to provide a boat holding-down and detaching device which shall be simple inits construction, strong, durable, securely retaining the boat in an upright position, eflicient in its use, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, as well as being'conveniently set up to operative positionand released from such position.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists-of the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and wherein is shown the preferred embodiment of the invention; but it is to be understood that changes, variations, and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scope of the claims hereunto appended.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a boat holding-down and detaching device in ac-' cordance with this invention; F ig;- 2- is a transverse section of a boat, showing theap' plication of a boat holding-down and detach ing device in accordance with this invention; and Fig- 3 is an elevation of a modifiedform;

A boat holding-down and detaching devicein accordance with this invention, and as shown in Fig. 1, comprises a' liookshaped gripping-arm 1, which is adapted to engagethe gunwale of the boat whenthe'dev ice'is in its operative position. Said gripping-arm 1 at its lower end is connected to or formed inone end terminating or is fixedly secured toa depending member 3, which slightly inclines-j The free end of thesuppor'ting outwardly. arm 2 has pivotally connected thereto,- as at 4, a depending locking-lever 5, provided with an opening 6, through wliiclrextend's a -lasl'n' connecting bar 7. Said bar 7"is formed witha E stop 8 to limit the inward movement of the lever 5 and has one end thereof pi'vot'ed, as at 9, to the lower end of the member 3': The bar?- is adapted to form a connecting' means between a lash 8 and the attaching device, the lash extending around the bar, and'w-hen the bar extends througlt the lever 5 a connection is formed between the lash and the device. The lash 8 at its other end is securedto'aneyebolt 9, fixed to thedeck of the vessel or other suitabl'esupport.

Inthe construction shown in" Fig: 3 the lash-connecting arm is indicated by tlieref erence character 10 and isprovidedwitli'an elongated slot 11, in' wl'iicliis mounted a shiftable link 12, to'w-hich thelash= 8 is attached. Otherwise than that, as stated, the device as shown in Fig. 3 is the sameas that shown in Fig. 1, the same-reference characters being applied thereto.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1 no means is set up whereby the device is at all times connected to the deck or other support. This will be evident, owing to the fact that when the locking-lever is moved to release the bar 7 the lash S will slide off the bar, and consequently the device will be disconnected.

In Fig. 3 a means is shown whereby the device is always attached to the deck or other support, so as to prevent the device from becoming misplaced or lost, and this will be evident by the manner of connecting the lash with the bar 10, this manner of connecting being the shiftable linli 11, to which the lash is permanently attached, and as the link 11 forms a permanent part of the bar 10 it Will be evident that when the lever 5 is operated to release the bar the device will not be sepeither the bar 7 or 10. This will slacken the lash, and the gripping-arms 1 can be removed from the gunwale and the boat released. Although in Fig. 2 of the drawings but two devices are shown for retaining the boat in an upright position, one deviceat each side of the boat, yet the number of devices upon each side of the boat can be increased, if desired.

It will readily be seen from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, that a boat holding down and detaching device is set up by which the boat will be retained fixedly in an upright position and very conveniently re leased from suchposition when occasion so re uires.

aving thus fully described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A boat holding-down and detaching device comprising a gripping-arm, a supporting-arm therefor, a member depending from said supporting-arm, a locking-lever pivoted I to said supporting-arm, and a lash-holding bar pivoted at one end to said member and adapted to have its other end extend through said lever.

2. A boat holding-down and detaching device comprising a gripping-arm, a supporting-arm therefor, a member depending from said supporting-arm, a locking-lever pivoted to said supporting-arm, and a lash-holding bar pivoted at one end to said member and adapted to have its other end extend through said lever, said bar provided with a shoulder for limiting the movement of said lever in one direction;

L 3. A boat holding-down and detaching denected to said supporting-arm, a depending locking-lever pivoted to said supporting-arm, said lever extending substantially in the same direction as said member, and a lash-holding bar pivoted at one end to said member and adapted to have its other end extend through said lever, said bar provided with means to limit the movement of said lever in one direction.

5. A boat holding-down and detaching de-' vice comprising a gripping-arm, an inverted- L-shaped element connected at the lower end of said arm, a locking-lever pivotedto one end of said element, and a lash-holding bar pivoted to the other end of said element, said lever extending in an opposite direction with respect to the direction in which said bar extends, and said bar adapted to have its free end extend through said lever.

6. A boat holding-down'and detaching device comprising a gripping-arm, an inverted L-shaped element connected at the lower end of said arm, a locking-lever pivoted to one end of said-element, and a lash-holding bar pivoted to the other end of said element, said lever extending in an opposite direction with respect to the direction in which said bar extends, and said bar adapted to have its free end extend through said-lever, said bar provided with means to limit the movement in one direction of said lever.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJMANE F.'MCHORNEY. EDWARD J. KELLEY. Witnesses:

W. M. HANNAH, W. W. ELLIOTT. 

